unironically, just leave the US. plenty of countries/international research orgs are pouching all sorts of US-intelligencia right now.

Tech is a field where there's always infinite work to do, and it's always only limited by the budget.

We had very low interest rates for over a decade, which made investments more profitable and thus there was always a ton of money to go around. The current financial downturn is the main reason of all the tech layoffs with no budget there are no jobs.

The upside of that: Even with all the talk of AI and stuff, once the interest rate goes down and investments go up, all the jobs will be back.

Don't wait, go straight into training in another field. Send out your resumes for a tech job, but start working on a backup.

Have you talked to a lot of tech workers? I feel like there's a set of left wing ones, a larger set of libertarian types, and an even larger set of people who are shockingly ignorant of politics and history.

We would need capital and we would be competing with people that practically own politicians.

Free market capitalism!

it would be much better for all of us to make new companies together

Companies need clients. That's sort of the secret sauce in business. If you don't have good relationships with the management at your client firms, you can't win the contracts that give your work recognizable monetary value.

We can spin up an opensourcebusiness community here on Lemmy to do it together (Have no idea how to make/manage Lemmy communities and have projects already if any people would like to pick up this initiative. I can assist however I can in spare time)

:-/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belling_the_Cat

Honestly same thing here. They didn't even do internships anymore.

They don't seem to be hiring anyone that's not a senior engineer either.

They also have been regularly laying off folks every year or more than once a year but not backfilling. So workloads are up.

Couple of this with them freezing promotions and now they're risking high performers leaving because they aren't being considered and rewarded for their contribution levels and engagement.

The working class is getting raped by people who went to business school.

Both literally, and figuratively.

I work for a European company, and we had a major US car company as a client. 6 month ago they abruptly stopped working with us and fired a bunch of their engineers, and now they hired again and are trying to negotiate a new deal with us.
Your story might be an answer to why

It's probably worth it to look into changing fields entirely, but honestly so many industries in the US are hurting right now, IDK which ones would even be a good option...

Which is weird because if you're actually trying to get shit done, you get much more value out of someone with experience in your ecosystem than someone you've just hired, and it's astonishing how low you an keep those ppls salaries compared to new hires who're much less effective. Hire+fire is shit for everyone. Except, I guess, idiots who can only think 2 months in either direction.

Oh, oh, my turn: I was fired on my first day of FMLA for a mental break caused by the ongoing discrimination at my workplace. Woohoo!

Edited to add: your job is protected for 12 months on FMLA. Your specific position is protected for 3 months after which they either have to give you a job, but not necessarily the same position you were in previously.

Yes, that is what the clueless executives think.

I've never worked with a junior developer that was worse than AI is now. It's often confidently wrong and can do so much damage, all while winning the politics battle without trying.